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SPOOL HOLDER.

(Application filed Aug. 2, 1900.)

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Patented Aprfl, |901.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

WILLIAM A. WOODS, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

SPOOL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent NO. 672,088, dated April16, 1901.

Application iiled August Z, 1900. Serial No. 25,685. (No model.)

To LZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. WOODS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State ofKentucky, have invented a new and useful Combined Spool and ThreadHolder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to' a combined spool and thread holder; and theobject of the same is to provide simple and effective means forremovably supporting a spool on the person of the user of the same andto have in connection therewith an attachment for holding the thread toprevent the loose end thereof from falling to an inconvenient reachingdistance and also for severing the same, the several parts being strongand durable and the entire device cheaply manufactured.

This invention consists in the construction and arrangement of theseveral parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and.

claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a spool and threadholder embodying the features of the invention and shown applied. Fig. 2is an elevation of the improved device looking toward the side thereofopposite from that shown by Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts in the views.

The numeral l designates a safety-pin adapted, as usual, for removableattachment to fabric and in the present instance designed for removablyapplying the improved device to the person of the user of the same. Fromthe lower portion of the pin the side bars of a substantiallyrectangular frame 2 depend in a rigid manner, the lower central portionof the said frame having an elongated eye 3 to detachably receive aVVcentral hook 4 at the upper contracted portion of a U-shapedspool-holding frame -5 of a resilient nature and having inturnedterminal fingers 6 to removably enter the opposite portions of thespool-bore at the head ends of the latter. To the depending side bars ofthe frame 2 is securedathread-holding plate 7 inclined downwardly towardthe inner bar and having a downwardly extending outwardly -inclinednotch 8 in the inner end The said notched end of the plate 7 extendsinwardly beyond the inner side bar, so as to give freedom to theoperator in throwing the thread 'thereover or removing the said threadtherefrom, and this notch also has one wall 9 thereof constructed as acutter for severing the thread into lengths for use.

It is preferred that the improved device be applied to the bosom of thewearer, and by having the holder movably depending from the frame 2 theparts of the device will be 'made to conform to the contour of the bodyof the wearer. It will be understood, however, that the device may beequally well used on other portions of the body than that specificallystated, as the mode or place of application does not in the least affectthe successful operation of the same. To insert or withdraw a spool fromspool-holdin g frame 5, the inturned terminal fingers are sprungoutwardly to engage or release the opposite ends of the same, and thespool is free to rotate on 'the said fingers to permit the thread to beunwound therefrom. After a length of thread has been broken off theloose eX- tremity is drawn upwardly over the plate 7 in the notch 8, asshown by Fig. l, and thereby held within convenient reaching distance.

The entire device is strong and durable in its structure and can becheaply manufactured and sold, and though the improved device has beenillustrated and described in its preferred form it is obviously apparentthat changes in the form, size, proportions, and minor details may beresorted to without departing from the principle of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- In aspool and thread holder, the combination of a substantially rectangularrigid frame having a safety-pin movably attached Yto .the upper portionthereof and disposed in a horizontal plane, a resilient spool-holdingframe movably suspended from the lower portion of the said rectangularframe, and a flat plate secured to and. extended entirely across therectangular frame and one extremity projected beyond the one side bar ofthe latter frame, the said projected extremity of the plate having adownwardly-extending outwardly-inclined notch formed therein to receivethe loose thread end and having one wall thereof constructed as a cutterfor severing the thread.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto ahxed mysignature in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM A. WOODS.

Witnesses:

FRANK KARSTAEDT, G. B. SAMUELS.

